This Time Next Year

This Time Next Year (Live) - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Original Broadway Cast Of Sunset Boulevard/Alan Campbell/Judy Kuhn

Lyrics by：Don Black/Christopher Hampton

Composed by：Andrew Lloyd Webber

Produced by：Andrew Lloyd Webber/Nigel Wright

Hey Gillis we'd give in you up

Let me take your coat

Jesus Joe what's this made of

Mink

Who did you borrow this from

Adolphe Menjou

Close but no cigar

Hey it's quite a crowd

Yeah I invited all the kids

Doing walk-ons in

Samson and Delilah

Where have you been hiding

I called your apartment

I called your ex-agent

I was about to call the

Bureau of missing persons

Well they always know where to find me

Hey Sammy

You gotta say your

New Year's resolution out loud

Jean

By this time next year

I'll have landed a juicy part

Nineteen fifty will be my start

No more carrying spears

I'll be discovered

My life won't ever be the same

Billy Wilder will know my name

And he'll call all the time

'Til he does can one of

You guys lend her a dime

Just an apartment

With no roaches and no dry rot

Where the hot water comes out hot

That's my Hollywood dream

Your resolution

Is to write something that gets shot

With approximately the plot

I first had in my head

But you'll get rewritten

Even after you're dead

Artie

It's the year to begin a new life

Buy a place somewhere quiet

Somewhere pretty

When you have a young kid and a wife

Then you need somewhere green

Far from the city

It's a rambling old house

With a big apple tree

With a swing for the

Kid and a hammock for me

Behold my children

It is I Cecil B DeMille

Meeting me must be quite a thrill

But there's no need to kneel

I guarantee you

Every girl in my chorus line

Is a genuine Philistine

They don't come off the shelf

I flew every one in from Philistia myself

I have some good news

It's blind windows

You don't let go

I gave Sheldrake an outline Joe

And he swallowed the bait

Well hallelujah

While you've been buying vicuna coats

I've been making a lot of notes

Now there's work we should do

Betty you're forgetting

That I gave it to you

You remind me of me long ago

Off the bus full of ignorant ambition

Thought I'd waltz into some studio

And achieve overnight recognition

I've seen too many

Optimists sinking like stones

Felt them suck all the

Marrow clean out of my bones

I love blind windows

But I can't write it on my own

Can't we speak on the telephone

All my evenings are free

Hey just a minute

I'm the fellow who bought the ring

Artie this is a business thing

It's important to me

You'll be on location

In Clinch Tennessee

Please make this your

New Year's resolution for me

By this time next year

I will get my foot in the door

Next year I know I'm going to score

An amazing success

Cut to the moment

When they open the envelope

Pass the statuette to bob hope

And it's my name you hear

We'll be down on our knees

Outside Grauman's Chinese

Palm prints there on the street

Immortality's neat

This time next year

This time next year

We'll have nothing to fear

Contracts all signed

Three-picture deal

Yellow brick road career

Hope we're not still saying these things

This time next year

You know I think I will

Be available in the New Year

In fact I'm available right now

Joe that's great

Hey Artie where's your phone

Under the bar

Hey Artie

You think you could put

Me up for a couple of weeks

It just so happens we've got

A vacancy on the couch

I'll take it

Yes

Max it's Mr Gillis I want you to do me a favor

I'm sorry Mr Gillis I can't talk right now

Listen I want you to take my old suitcases

I'm sorry I am attending to Madame

What do you mean

Madame found the razor in your room

And she's cut her wrists

Happy New Year

Should auld acquiantance be forgot

And never brought to mind

Should auld acquiantance be forgot

And days of auld lang syne

For auld lang syne my dear

For auld lang syne